New Releases: November - December 2017

One week to go before the end of 2017 and as we are finalizing the lists of our favorite albums and songs of the year, let's take a moment to check out the latest new releases:

Albums

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD - Polygondwanaland
GUN OUTFIT - Out of Range
ANGEL OLSEN - Phases
BJÖRK - Utopia
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Rest
MORRISSEY - Low in High School
NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - Who Built The Moon?
ESCAPE-ISM - Introduction to Escape-ism
SPINNING COIN - Permo
OCS (aka OH SEES) - Memory Of A Cut Off Head
LOST HORIZONS - Ojala
JIM WHITE - Waffles, Triangles and Jesus
BILLY BRAGG - Bridges Not Walls
SONDRE LERCHE - Pleasure
EUROS CHILDS - House Arrest
PETE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - Safer With The Wolves
AUTOBAHN - The Moral Crossing
ZOMBY - Mercury's Rainbow
VISIBLE CLOAKS - Lex
VIRGINIA WING / XAM DUO - Tomorrow's Gift
QTY - QTY
QUICKSAND - Interiors
GODFLESH - Post Self
GLASSJAW - Material Control
I, LUDICROUS - Songs From The Sides Of Lorries
U2 - Songs of Experience
JIM JAMES - Tribute to 2
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - Wolf of the Cosmos
SUFJAN STEVENS - The Greatest Gift
HÜSKER DÜ - Savage Young Du

Singles & EPs

MORRISSEY - Jacky’s Only Happy When She’s Up On Stage
SUNFLOWER BEAN - I Was A Fool
GOAT GIRL - Cracker Drool
PIP BLOM - Babies Are A Lie / School
XIU XIU/(R) - Xiu Xiu/(r)
EMA - MopTops (Twist While The World Stops)
U.S. GIRLS - Velvet 4 Sale
DJANGO DJANGO - Tic Tac Toe
THE LOVELY EGGS - I Shouldn't Have Said That
TOTAL CONTROL - Laughing at the System EP
ABATTOIR BLUES - Blinded
HERE LIES MAN - Animal Noises
THE LIMINANAS - Istanbul Is Sleepy
THE LIMINANAS WITH PASCAL COMELADE - The Curse Of Santa Claus / Silent Night
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - How to Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 1
THE BIG MOON - Acoustic EP
KELLY LEE OWENS - More Than A Woman
SLEIGH BELLS - Kid Kruschev EP
AT THE DRIVE IN - Diamante EP
BLACK LIPS - This Sick Beat
ALLAH-LAS - Covers 1
PETE ASTOR - Water Tower
PAUL WELLER - One Tear
NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - Holy Mountain
U2 - The Blackout
THE CHARLATANS - Over Again
TENNIS - We Can Die Happy EP
THE BUG - Bad / Get Out The Way
SUPERORGANISM - Something For Your M.I.N.D.
THE MOONLANDINGZ - The Cities Undone EP
AVERAGE SEX - Ugly Strangers EP
DEAD PRETTIES - Confidence / Water
PICAPICA - Spring and Shade

Pip Blom - School

New Releases: October 2017

Round-up of October's most interesting new releases featuring albums by St. Vincent, Fever Ray, Destroyer, Wolf Parade, Cults, Bully and the collaboration between Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, as well as singles by Jane Weaver, Breeders, U.S. Girls and Morrissey:

Albums

Masseduction

ST. VINCENT - Masseduction
FEVER RAY - Plunge
DESTROYER - ken
WOLF PARADE - Cry, Cry, Cry
BULLY - Losing
COURTNEY BARNETT AND KURT VILE - Lotta Sea Lice
CULTS - Offering
STARS - There Is No Love in Fluorescent Light
BECK - Colors
DANIELE LUPPI AND PARQUET COURTS - Milano
A. SAVAGE - Thawing Dawn
JULIEN BAKER - Turn Out the Lights
MARGO PRICE - All American Made
DERADOORIAN - Eternal Recurrence
DUCKTAILS - Jersey Devil
FLAT WORMS - Flat Worms
MELKBELLY - Nothing Valley
MAKTHAVERSKAN - III
WEAVES - Wide Open
ALEX LAHEY - I Love You Like A Brother
THE WEATHER STATION - The Weather Station
WILD ONES - Mirror Touch
FOUR TET - New Energy
DAPHNI - Joli Mai
JESSIE WARE - Glasshouse
KING KRULE - The OOZ
WEEZER - Pacific Daydream
WU-TANG - The Saga Continues
MARNIE - Strange Words And Weird Wars
HOLOGRAM TEEN - Between The Funk and The Fear
REPTALIENS - FM-2030
YUMI ZOUMA - Willowbank
MARTIN CARR - New Shapes of Life
KELE OKEREKE - Fatherland
MARK KOZELEK WITH BEN BOYE AND JIM WHITE - Mark Kozelek With Ben Boye And Jim White
MICHAEL HEAD AND THE RED ELASTIC BAND - Adios Senor Pussycat
LIAM GALLAGHER - As You Were
MARILYN MANSON - Heaven Upside Down
KELELA - Take Me Apart
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE - Livity
JOHN MAUS - Screen Memories
BAXTER DURY - Prince of Tears
WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND CTMF - Brand New Cage
KING KHAN AND THE GRIS GRIS - Murderburgers
GOAT - Fuzzed in Europe

Singles & EPs

The Architect EP

JANE WEAVER - The Architect EP
THE BREEDERS - Wait in the Car
U.S. GIRLS - Mad As Hell
FEVER RAY - To the Moon and Back
MORRISSEY - Spent The Day In Bed
WILD BEASTS - Punk Drunk and Trembling EP
CCFX - CCFX EP
LUNA - California Blue / Rock Yr Baby
LUNA / CHEVAL SOMBRE - Lonesome Cowboy Bill
DARTO / WAND - Hush / Follow Up
FONTAINES - Hurricane Laughter / Winter In The Sun
HMLTD - Satan, Luella and I / Kinkaku-ji
BEACH SLANG - We Were Babies and We Were Dirtbags (Quiet Slang)
PHENOMENAL HANDCLAP BAND - Traveler's Prayer / Stepped Into The Light
KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS - Spider Baby / Apple In The Razor Blade
MOUSE ON MARS - Synaptics EP
COLDCUT x ON-U SOUND - Kajra
FLOATING POINTS - Ratio
FATIMA AL QADIRI - Shaneera EP
CARLA DAL FORNO - The Garden

In the spirit of Halloween, check out the strange video for Fever Ray's comeback single "To The Moon And Back":

New Releases: September 2017

Round-up of the most interesting albums, singles and EPs released in September 2017:

Albums

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - American Dream
THE NATIONAL - Sleep Well Beast
PROTOMARTYR - Relatives in Descent
ALVVAYS - Antisocialites
THE DREAM SYNDICATE - How Did I Find Myself Here
LEE RANALDO - Electric Trim
METZ - Strange Peace
WOLF ALICE - Visions of a Life
TORRES - Three Futures
ZOLA JESUS - Okovi
CHELSEA WOLFE - Hiss Spun
EMILY HAINES & THE SOFT SKELETON - Choir of the Mind
ARIEL PINK - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER - Hallelujah Anyhow
CHAD VANGAALEN - Light Information
THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART - The Echo of Pleasure
DEATH FROM ABOVE - Outrage! Is Now
DEERHOOF - Mountain Moves
DEER TICK - Deer Tick Vol. 1
DEER TICK - Deer Tick Vol. 2
FOO FIGHTERS - Concrete and Gold
PERE UBU - 20 Years In a Montana Missle Silo
THE SURFING MAGAZINES - The Surfing Magazines
THE HORRORS - V
MOGWAI - Every Country's Sun
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - Luciferian Towers
CHAIN AND THE GANG - Experimental Music
TED LEO - The Hanged Man
LUNA - A Sentimental Education Double Feature
ROSTAM - Half-Light
THE KILLERS - Wonderful Wonderful
TRICKY - ununiform
SUPERFOOD - Bambino
SLOTFACE - Try Not To Freak Out
RODDY WOOMBLE - The Deluder
THE CLIENTELE - Music for the Age of Miracles
WAND - Plum
THE BRONX - V
PROPHETS OF RAGE - Prophets of Rage
HUNDRED WATERS - Communicating
HOT WATER MUSIC - Light It Up
GIRL ONE AND THE GREASE GUNS - Night Of The Living Electrical Appliances
SUSANNE SUNDFOR - Music For People In Trouble
ANGUS AND JULIA STONE - Snow
MOUNT KIMBIE - Love What Survives
DÄLEK - Endangered Philosophies
THE COOL KIDS - Special Edition Grandmaster Deluxe
NOSAJ THING - Parallels
CUT COPY - Haiku from Zero
FISCHERSPOONER - SIR
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK - The Punishment of Luxury
GARY NUMAN - Savage
THE WATERBOYS - Out of All This Blue

Singles & EPs 

St. Vincent

ST. VINCENT - Los Ageless

DESTROYER - Tinseltown Swimming in Blood

HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS - Son of a Lady EP

LUNA - A Place of Greater Safety EP

SWIMMING TAPES - Soft Sea Blue EP

FLOWERS - Say 123

SEAFANG - Solid Gold

UV-TV - Go Away EP

SPARROW PEOPLE - I Thought of You / Baby Foxes

WYE OAK - Spiral / Wave Is Not the Water

YASSASSIN - Vitamin Y

LAZY DAY - Ribbons EP

HVMM - TalkTo Me Like I'm Dead EP

BAD NERVES - Radio Punk

THE LEMON TWIGS - Brothers of Destruction EP

POND - Firein the Water / The Weather (Live at Rough Trade East)

BRIX AND THE EXTRICATED - Moonrise Kingdom

KAMASI WASHINGTON - Harmony of Difference EP

ZOMBY - GASP! EP

DAPHNI - Hey Drum / The Truth

JESSIE WARE - Midnight - Goldie Remixes

DEPECHE MODE - Going Backwards

EVERYTHING IS RECORDED - Mountains of Gold

HAND HABITS - Yr Heart

WOMEN IN LOVE - Shamed

SUZI WU - TeenageWitch EP

St. Vincent - Los Ageless

New Releases: July - August 2017

The summer vacations are over, time to get back into it! Let's start by rounding up some of the most interesting albums and singles released in the last couple of months:

Albums

New Facts Emerge

THE FALL - New Facts Emerge
LIARS - TFCF 
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - Hug Of Thunder
WAXAHATCHEE - Out in the Storm
NADINE SHAH - Holiday Destination 
EMA - Exile In The Outer Ring
JAPANESE BREAKFAST - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
FRANKIE ROSE - Cage Tropical
GRIZZLY BEAR - Painted Ruins
THE WAR ON DRUGS - A Deeper Understanding
ARCADE FIRE - Everything Now
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Villains
DOWNTOWN BOYS - Cost of Living
RAINER MARIA - S/T
FILTHY FRIENDS - Invitation
GUIDED BY VOICES - How Do You Spell Heaven
OH SEES - Orc
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD with MILD HIGH CLUB - Sketches Of Brunswick East
IRON AND WINE - Beast Epic
THIS IS THE KIT - Moonshine Freeze
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - Every Valley
SHABAZZ PALACES - Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star
SHABAZZ PALACES - Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines
GHOSTPOET - Dark Days and Canapes
UNKLE - The Road - Part 1
THE DUKE SPIRIT - Sky is Mine
THE CRIBS - 24-7 Rock Star Shit
THE DEARS - Times Infinity Volume Two
WIDOWSPEAK - Expect the Best
JEN CLOHER - Jen Cloher
KELLEY STOLTZ - Que Aura
SHEER MAG - Need To Feel Your Love
MELVINS - A Walk With Love & Death
THE FRESH AND ONLYS - Wolf Lie Down
PSYCHIC TEMPLE - IV
CHRIS FORSYTH AND THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND - Dreaming In The Non-Dream
AVEY TARE - Eucalyptus
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING - A Fever Dream
MADONNATRON - Madonnatron
A GIANT DOG - Toy
SOCCER MOMMY - Collection
TRAILER TRASH TRACYS - Althaea
LANA DEL REY - Lust For Life
HAIM - Something to Tell You
MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA - A Black Mile To The Surface
TYLER, THE CREATOR - Flower Boy
DIZZEE RASCAL - Raskit
PUBLIC ENEMY - Nothing Is Quick in the Desert

Singles & EPs

Crow Cries

GOAT GIRL - Crow Cries
SAMANTHA URBANI - Policies of Power EP
THE KILLS - Echo Home Non-Electric EP
TY SEGALL - Fried Shallots EP
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER - Standing in the Doorway
GUIDED BY VOICES - Just To Show You / Knife City
ARIEL PINK - Another Weekend / Ode To The Goat (Thank You)
PURITY RING - Asido
THE OSCILLATION - Evil In The Tree
LAMBCHOP - The Hustle Unlimited / When You Were Mine
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - Leonard
MOGWAI - Party In The Dark / Eternal Panther
ALICE GLASS - Alice Glass EP
NINE INCH NAILS - Add Violence EP
DJ SHADOW - The Mountain Has Fallen EP
LITTLE BARRIE - Produkt
POLICA AND STARGAZE - Bruise Blood: Reimagining Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood
SQÜRL - EP #260
THE SEXUAL OBJECTS - Sometimes EP
ALDOUS RH - Feelin’ Blue
CONFIDENCE MAN - Bubblegum Remixes 
SHIT AND SHINE - Hamburger EP 
MADONNATRON / NOFRIENDZ - Headless Children / Bloody Love
THE GOA EXPRESS - Goa / Kiss Me
SLOTFACE - Empire Records / Sponge State
JERKCURB - Voodoo Saloon
STONE FOUNDATION - Simplify the Situation
PAUL WELLER - Woo Sé Mama
THE CHARLATANS - Different Days
LIAM GALLAGHER - Wall of Glass
SUNDARA KARMA - Explore EP 
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK - Isotype

Goat Girl - Crow Cries

New Releases: June 2017

Round-up of the most interesting albums, singles and EPs released in June 2017:

Albums

The Underside of Power

ALGIERS - The Underside Of Power
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - Murder Of The Universe
RIDE - Weather Diaries
FLEET FOXES - Crack-Up
KEVIN MORBY - City Music
PALEHOUND - A Place I’ll Always Go
CHASTITY BELT - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
BEACH FOSSILS - Somersault
THE DRUMS - Abysmal Thoughts
JASON LOEWENSTEIN - Spooky Action
SUFJAN STEVENS, BRYCE DESSNER, NICO MUHLY, JAMES MCALISTER - Planetarium
AMBER COFFMAN - City Of No Reply
LAUREL HALO - Dust
PEAKING LIGHTS - The Fifth State Of Consciousness
H HAWKLINE - I Romanticize
ULRIKA SPACEK - Modern English Decoration
CIGARETTES AFTER SEX - Cigarettes After Sex 
TEMPLE OV BBV - Temple ov BBV 
JAD FAIR AND KRAMER - The History Of Crying
ROYAL TRUX - Platinum Tips and Ice Cream
ROYAL BLOOD - How Did We Get So Dark?
DAN AUERBACH - Waiting On A Song
MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS - Existential Beast
MARIKA HACKMAN - I'm Not Your Man
BETH DITTO - Fake Sugar
PHOENIX - Ti Amo
VINCE STAPLES - Big Fish Theory
JAY Z - 4:44
BIG BOI - Boomiverse
MARK WYNN - More Singles
TOPS - Sugar At The Gate
SONGHOY BLUES - Resistance
LOVE THEME - Love Theme 
MAJOR LEAGUES - Good Love 
THE POPGUNS - Sugar Kisses
THE RUBY SUNS - Sprite Fountain
CELEBRATION - Wounded Healer
CHAIN AND THE GANG - Best Of Crime Rock

Singles & EPs

Everything Now

ARCADE FIRE - Everything Now
ARCADE FIRE - Creature Comfort
AMBER ARCADES - Cannonball EP
PJ HARVEY AND RAMY ESSAM - The Camp
MODERN COSMOLOGY - Summer Long EP
H HAWKLINE - Last Thing On Your Mind
THE COATHANGERS - Parasite
FLASHER - Winnie / Burn Blue
SYNTHETIC ID - Escapement
WHITNEY - You’ve Got A Woman / Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can)
THE NO ONES - Sun Station EP
THE ORIELLES - Sugar Tastes Like Salt
TROUBLE - Snake Eyes
LICE - The Human Parasite
MARY EPWORTH - Me Swimming
LAPS - Who Me?
MOLLY NILSSON - Single
MAJOR LAZER - Know No Better EP

Algiers - The Underside of Power

New Releases: May 2017

Round-up of the most interesting new releases of the month, featuring new albums by The Afghan Whigs, Slowdive, Moon Duo, Girlpool and Forest Swords:

Albums

In Spades

THE AFGHAN WHIGS - In Spades
SLOWDIVE - Slowdive
GIRLPOOL - Powerplant
MOON DUO - Occult Architecture Vol. 2
FOREST SWORDS - Compassion
LAND OF TALK - Life After Youth
BLACK LIPS - Satan’s Graffiti or God’s Art?
(SANDY) ALEX G - Rocket
!!! - Shake The Shudder
JLIN - Black Origami
JANE WEAVER - Modern Kosmology
ALDOUS HARDING - Party
PUMAROSA - The Witch
GOTHIC TROPIC - Fast or Feast
SUN KIL MOON / JESU - 30 Seconds To The Decline Of Planet Earth
DO MAKE SAY THINK - Stubborn Persistent Illusions
AT THE DRIVE-IN - in•ter a•li•a
POND - The Weather
KASABIAN - For Crying Out Loud
THE CHARLATANS - Different Days
PAUL WELLER - A Kind Revolution
BLONDIE - Pollinator
BMX BANDITS - Bmx Bandits Forever
WAVVES - You're Welcome
PERFUME GENIUS - No Shape
MAC DEMARCO - This Old Dog
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - Goths
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - Best Troubador
AMANDA PALMER AND EDWARD KA-SPEL - I Can Spin A Rainbow
JUANA MOLINA - Halo
COLDCUT X ON-U SOUND - Outside The Echo Chamber
ELLEN ALLIEN - Nost
ELAN VITAL - Shadow Self
NITE JEWEL - Real High
LA TAKEDOWN - II
HO99O9 - United States of Ho99o9
HUGO RACE AND MICHELANGELO RUSSO - John Lee Hooker's World Today
ILLEGAL OPERATION - Down
MELT MOUNTAIN - Superfetish
PENGUIN CAFÉ - The Imperfect Sea
BROTHER ALI - All The Beauty In This Whole Life
DELIA GONZALEZ - Horse Follows Darkness
PRIESTS - Early Recordings
LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE - Still Bewitched
HELIUM - Ends With And

Singles & EPs

NADINE SHAH - Out The Way
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - Hug Of Thunder
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Call The Police / American Dream
THE COMET IS COMING - Death To The Planet
THE WEDDING PRESENT - The Home Internationals EP
THE PRIMITIVES - New Thrills EP
BRIX AND THE EXTRICATED - Damned For Eternity
PETER DOHERTY - Kolly Kibber
GALANTS - Galants
DRAHLA - Fictional Decision
DEWEY - Loch Linnhe
BLOXX - You / Your Boyfriend
PEANESS - Are You Sure?
STARCRAWLER - Ants
CHINA GATE - Good Grief EP
2 BY BUKOWSKI - Hot Summer / Beast’s Breath
W H LUNG - Inspiration! / Nothing Is
VATICAN SHADOW - Rubbish of the Floodwaters EP
EVERYTHING IS RECORDED - Close but Not Quite EP
SWET SHOP BOYS - Sufi La EP
SHAKING CHAINS - Midnight Oil / Drunk No More
THE SPITFIRES - Move On

Nadine Shah - Out The Way

New Releases: April 2017

Another great month for new releases with albums by Thurston Moore, Mark Lanegan Band, The Black Angels and The New Pornographers to name but a few. Here's our shortlist of those that stood out from the pack, including some of the Record Store Day 2017 releases:

Albums

THURSTON MOORE - Rock n Roll Consciousness
MARK LANEGAN BAND - Gargoyle
THE BLACK ANGELS - Death Song
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Whiteout Conditions
WOODS - Love is Love
THE BIG MOON - Love In The 4th Dimension
ROBYN HITCHCOCK - Robyn Hitchcock
GUIDED BY VOICES - August by Cake
JULIANA HATFIELD - Pussycat
FUJIYA & MIYAGI - Fujiya & Miyagi
KENDRICK LAMAR - DAMN.
RAEKWON - The Wild
ARCA - Arca
ACTRESS - AZD
GORILLAZ - Humanz
THE RAVEONETTES - 2016 Atomized
HAPPYNESS - Write In
SHEER MAG - Compilation
FATHER JOHN MISTY - Pure Comedy
FEIST - Pleasure
KAREN ELSON - Double Roses
TARA JANE O’NEIL - Tara Jane O’Neil
MARK MULCAHY - The Possum In The Driveway
BNQT - Volume 1
COLD WAR KIDS - La Divine
FUTURE ISLANDS - The Far Field
MAXÏMO PARK - Risk To Exist
SPLASHH - Waiting A Lifetime
PART CHIMP - IV
H GRIMACE - Self Architect
DIET CIG - Swear I’m Good At This
LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT - Los Angeles Police Department
A VICTIM OF SOCIETY - Freaktown
WALL - Untitled
HERE LIES MAN - Here Lies Man
WHITE REAPER - The World’s Best American Band
ALEXANDRA SAVIOR - Belladonna Of Sadness
LITTLE DRAGON - Season High
JOE GODDARD - Electric Lines
CLARK - Death Peak
JOEY BADA$$ - All-Amerikkkan Bada$$

Singles & EPs

SPOON - Hot Thoughts
THE CHILLS - Rocket Science
POLICA - Lipstick Stains / Still Counts
GOLD CONNECTIONS - Gold Connections EP
THE FIREWORKS - Dream About You
THE WAR ON DRUGS - Thinking of A Place
KEVIN MORBY - Beautiful Strangers
LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE - The Sound of All things
BARRY ADAMSON - Love Sick Dick EP
FUJIYA & MIYAGI - EP3
ARCA - Saunter / Reverie
PRIMAL SCREAM - Mixamatosis
DAMAGED BUG / BLACK PUS - Rubber Lips / High Tide
TEMPLES / KADHJA BONET - Fortune / I Wanna Be A Free Girl
THE VELDT - Symmetry / Slow Grid
THE DARLING BUDS - Evergreen
MAJOR LEAGUES - It Was Always You
REPTALIENS - Prequel / Olive Boy
BLACK HONEY - Somebody Better
SHIT GIRLFRIEND - Mummy's Boy
THE SUBURBS - Hey Muse!
THE SUBURBS - Lost You On The Dance Floor
YOUNG FATHERS - Only God knows (featuring Leith Congregational Choir)
HMLTD - To The Door / Music!
VANISHING TWIN - Dream By Numbers
OLD 97'S - Terlingua / Off My Mynd
BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY AND NATHAN SALSBURG - Beargrass Song +2 EP
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Meeting Of The Waters
SYSTEM CORPORATION - Dismal Universal Hiss

Thurston Moore - Smoke Of Dreams

The April '17 Hit Parade

Hope you all enjoyed yesterday's Record Store Day and that you were able to find those special releases you were after. Actually, with such a strong roster of new releases lately, I don’t think that a special day is needed to give us an incentive to visit our local record stores. As you will see next week in our latest Listening Habits post, there is currently a huge pile of excellent records we are going through and plenty more are going to be added over the next few weeks as we're anxiously expecting new releases by the likes of The Afghan Wigs, Mark Lanegan, The Black Angels and At The Drive-In to name but a few.

With so many excellent new releases by returning favorite artists, it is easy to overlook some very worthwhile albums by new or relatively new acts that are coming out over the same period. To avoid making this mistake, in this post we have chosen to highlight the new work of a few of these bands that we are either newly acquainted with or we have known about for a little while. Say hello to London all-girl four-piece The Big Moon and Melbourne rockers Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, and welcome back the psychedelic sounds of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, also from Melbourne, and Temples from Kettering:

The Big Moon - Sucker

The Big Moon are Juliette Jackson, Soph Nathann, Celia Archer and Fern Ford. They made their debut with the single "Sucker" in 2015 and after a few more singles, among them last year's pop gem "Silent Movie Susie", they have just released their debut album "Love in the 4th Dimension", a strong pop record that brings to mind the era when bands like Elastica or Sleeper ruled the indie airwaves. Check out above the reworked version of "Sucker" that opens their debut album.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Julie's Place

We can't wait to hear what Melbourne's Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are going to present to us when the time comes for their debut album. For now we'll have to make do with their astonishing second 7-track EP "The French Press", their Sub Pop debut, that sounds like a marriage made in heaven between Broken Social Scene and The Go-Betweens!

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Rattlesnake

Psychedelic rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have been going for a while now, releasing so far nine albums in five years! Their latest one "Flying Microtonal Banana" is an outstanding mix of psych and krautrock sounds and is just the first installment of five albums set to be released in 2017 that experiment with microtonality. This is going to be interesting, to say the least...

Temples - Strange Or Be Forgotten

We have been championing Temples ever since we've come across their excellent debut album "Sun Structures" at the beginning of 2014. Now the Kettering four-piece is back with its sophomore work "Volcano", another psychedelic pop trip with more dance-rock influences this time around, but with a prevailing 60's rock vibe at its core, with strong melodies forming the backbone of their sound.

Visit us again next week for the complete list of our favorite albums and songs for March - April 2017, it's gonna be a blast!

New Releases: March 2017

The list of new releases for March 2017 was a particularly impressive one, featuring several important comebacks, including the first new album by The Jesus And Mary Chain in nearly two decades and the return of Boss Hog after 17 years. Add next to them new records by several of our favorite artists and bands, like Spoon, Laura Marling, Temples, Real Estate, Sleaford Mods and Wire to name but a few, and you have quite a great month for new music!

Albums:

Hot Thoughts

SPOON - Hot Thoughts
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - Damage and Joy
BOSS HOG - Brood X
ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER - The French Press
LAURA MARLING - Semper Femina
REAL ESTATE - In Mind
TEMPLES - Volcano
GRANDADDY - Last Place
THE SHINS - Heartworms
SLEAFORD MODS - English Tapas
WIRE - Silver / Lead
LAETITIA SADIER SOURCE ENSEMBLE - Find Me Finding You
BRITISH SEA POWER - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
CONOR OBERST - Salutations
CRAIG FINN - We All Want the Same Things
SPIRAL STAIRS - Doris and the Daggers
MILK MUSIC - Mystic 100s
PHARMAKON - Contact
ADULT. - Detroit House Guests
KELLY LEE OWENS - Kelly Lee Owens
JAY SOM - Everybody Works
VAGABON - Infinite Worlds
UV-TV - Glass
THE COURTNEYS - II
CIRCUS DEVILS - Laughs Last
MINUS THE BEAR - Voids
BARDO POND - Under The Pines
ARBOURETUM - Song of the Rose
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF - The Navigator
DESPERATE JOURNALIST - Grow Up
CIRCA WAVES - Different Creatures
SECRET SHINE - There Is Only Now
MOUNT EERIE - A Crow Looked At Me
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - 50 Song Memoir
DAMAGED BUG - Bunker Funk
THE BUG Vs EARTH - Concrete Desert
BLANCK MASS - World Eater
FUTURE - HNDRXX
KID KOALA featuring EMILIANA TORRINI - Music To Draw To: Satellite
GOLDFRAPP - Silver Eye
HOLLY MACVE - Golden Eagle
FORMATION - Look At The Powerful People
WHY? - Moh Lhean
VENN - Runes
GREG GRAFFIN - Millport
BODY COUNT - Bloodlust
SOULWAX - From Deewee
DEPECHE MODE - Spirit
JARVIS COCKER AND CHILLY GONZALES - Room 29
ALEXIS TAYLOR - Listen With(out) Piano
METHYL ETHEL - Everything Is Forgtten
SACRED PAWS - Strike a Match
PC WORSHIP - Buried Wish
BAIT - Bait
WOLF EYES - Undertow 

THE RESIDENTS - The Ghost of Hope
DIAMANDA GALÁS - All The Way
DIAMANDA GALÁS - At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem
JULIA HOLTER - In The Same Room
WHERESWILDER - Hotshot

Singles & EPs

THURSTON MOORE - Cease Fire
BLONDE REDHEAD - 3 O'Clock EP
SNEAKS - It's a Myth EP
PINS - Bad Thing EP
SPINNING COIN - Raining On Hope Street
FUCKED UP - Year of the Snake
THE BESNARD LAKES - The Besnard Lakes are the Divine Wind
BLEACHED - Can You Deal?
CATE LE BON - Rock Pool
JULIEN BAKER - Funeral Pyre
ANOHNI - Paradise EP
MAX JURY - Under The Covers
UNQUALIFIED NURSE BAND - Death Surf A52
THE WAVE PICTURES - Canvey Island Baby
HORSEBEACH / THE PHEREMOANS - Alone / Removals
THE BLUE ORCHIDS - Skull Jam EP
BRIX AND THE EXTRICATED - Something To Lose / Faced With Time
BLONDIE - Long Time
DEPECHE MODE - Where's the Revolution
STONE FOUNDATION - Your Balloon is Rising (Featuring Paul Weller)
HANNAH LOU CLARK - The Heart And All Its Sin EP

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - French Press

New Releases: February 2017

Round-up of the most interesting new releases of the month:

Albums:

THE FEELIES - In Between
MOON DUO - Occult Architecture Vol.1
PISSED JEANS - Why Love Now
THE BATS - The Deep Set
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - The Tourist
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Don't Get Lost
THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH - What Kind Of Dystopian Hellhole Is This?
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - Flying Microtonal Banana
SUMMER MOON - With You Tonight
DIRTY PROJECTORS - Dirty Projectors
JESCA HOOP - Memories Are Now
TIM DARCY - Saturday Night
SUN KIL MOON - Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - Burning The Threshold
MEATBODIES - Alice
CRYSTAL FAIRY - Crystal Fairy
LOS CAMPESINOS! - Sick Scenes
THE DEARS - Times Infinity Volume One
JULIAN COPE - Drunken Songs
MODERN ENGLISH - Take Me To The Trees
ELBOW - Little Fictions
RYAN ADAMS - Prisoner
SON VOLT - Notes of Blue
CHUCK PROPHET - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
OLD 97s - Graveyard Whistling
THE SADIES - Northern Passages
TOBIN SPROUT - The Universe and Me
JENS LEKMAN - Life Will See You Now
SURFER BLOOD - Snowdonia
MOZART'S SISTER - Field of Love
NOVELLA - Change of State
THE NECKS - Unfold
COMMUNIONS - Blue
FUTURE - Future
SINKANE - Life & Livin' It
DUKE GARWOOD - Garden of Ashes
DUTCH UNCLES - Big Balloon
LUKE HAINES - Smash the System
XIU XIU - Forget
MUNA - About U
STEF CHURA - Messes
DAMS OF THE WEST - Youngish American
DUDE YORK - Sincerely
BLANK SQUARE - Animal I
THE MENZINGERS - After the Party
PALBERTA - Bye Bye Berta
PVT - New Spirit
BENT - Snakes and Shapes
GRAILS - Chalice Hymnal
GREAT YTENE - Locus

Singles & EPs

PARQUET COURTS - Captive of the Sun (featuring Bun B)
JOSEFIN ÖHRN + THE LIBERATION - Sister Green Eyes
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - The Painters EP
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Dropping Bombs On The Sun (UFO Paycheck)
ALLAH-LAS - Autumn Dawn / Hereafter
TEENAGE FANCLUB - I'm in Love
PART CHIMP / GREY HAIRS - Lies / Capable Man
BRUISING / PERSONAL BEST - What It Feels Like / Rollies
WICHSWUT - Wichswut EP
CFM - Homegrown Paranoia EP
JW RIDLEY - Everything (Deathless)
PAUL WHITE ft. DANNY BROWN - Accelerator EP
JLIN - Dark Lotus EP
SALEN - Copper Kiss
DIRTY DISHES - All Of Me / Sentiment
RETRO KID - Retro Kid EP
ALDOUS HARDING - Horizon
HOLY MOTORS - Sleeprydr
GULP - Search For Your Love
CRAIG BROWN BAND - Overthinking / Last All Night
TEAM PICTURE / LAMINATE PET ANIMAL - Back to Bay Six / Eve
THE SHERLOCKS - Will You Be There?

Parquet Courts - Captive of The Sun (ft. Bun B)

New Releases: January 2017

Round-up of the most interesting new releases of January 2017:

Albums

Run The Jewels 3

RUN THE JEWELS - Run the Jewels 3

TY SEGALL - Ty Segall

JAPANDROIDS - Near to the Wild Heart of Life

CLOUD NOTHINGS - Life Without Sound

MARK EITZEL - Hey Mr Ferryman

ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD - Tourist in This Town

THE FLAMING LIPS - Oczy Mlody

AUSTRA - Future Politics

THE XX - I See You

FOXYGEN - Hang

CHERRY GLAZERR - Apocalipstick

THE PROPER ORNAMENTS - Foxhole

ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL - Stellular

JULIE BYRNE - Not Even Happiness

TIFT MERRITT - Stitch Of The World

HORSE THIEF - Trials and Truths

PRIESTS - Nothing Feels Natural

INVADERBAND - Invaderband

MENACE BEACH - Lemon Memory

THE BLUE AEROPLANES - Welcome, Stranger!

HALF JAPANESE - Hear the Lions Roar

URANIUM CLUB - All of Them Naturals

THE MOLOCHS - America’s Velvet Glory

SINAI VESSEL - Brokenlegged

FRANK CARTER AND THE RATTLESNAKES - Modern Ruin

T.S.O.L. - The Trigger Complex

BASH AND POP - Anything Could Happen

THE DESOTO CAUCUS - 4

BONOBO - Migration

MIGOS - Culture

SLEATER KINNEY - Live In Paris

GIRL ONE AND THE GREASE GUNS - The Strange Little Lines That Humans Draw In The Dust

Singles & EPs

CHAVEZ - Cockfighters EP

CARSON COX, SAM YORK AND AUSTIN BROWN - Fire Dance

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Open Minds Now Close

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Groove Is In The Heart

ARIEL PINK / WEYES BLOOD - Myths 002 EP

OF MONTREAL - Rune Husk EP

VEXX - Wild Hunt EP

TROPICAL SKIN BYRDS - Tropical Skin Byrds

UROCHROMES - Night Bully EP

THE CHEAP THRILLS - Glare EP

THE CREATION FACTORY - Let Me Go / You Got It

LOWTIDE - Julia / Spring

FAMILY SCRAPS - Mistakes

THE BIG MOON - Formidable

MY LIFE STORY - 24 Hour Deflowerer

JAMIE T - Tescoland

Cloud Nothings - Internal World